Don’t forget a lot of the single moms have live in boyfriends that are off the books. The mothers know the system will penalize them dearly if they marry and/or report the boyfriend’s income.
Yep. My mom is a welfare caseworker & she says this is the situation more often than not. These women apply for welfare, say they don’t know who the fathers is & that they’re not receiving child support, yet my mom will come time find out that the man is living with the woman & his income is not being reported. Problem is, the gov has the system set up so that my mom cannot yank the client’s benefits. She has to file a report, do mountains of paperwork which then ends up on some beaurocrat’s desk & wait for it to be “reviewed” which can be a year or so later.
Just ridiculous. The amount of fraud that gets let go is amazing. And the trash knows it, too. So they just continue to exploit the system. Is it any wonder we have a society with an entitlement mentality?
don’t forget to throw in child support with that group.
some of those women intentionally work lower paying jobs to keep up an inequity in income to get higher child support checks.
also, i didn’t see state paid child care on the list of “freebies”.
The way around it in California is the live-in boyfriend is reported as a roommate. That way $0 of his income is used as household income.
All the single moms with boyfriends here know that.